WHAT YOU TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS?

DAC

"Although I have spent many hours at the library and have amassed an impressive array (if I do say so myself) of research, I still find myself staring at a blank computer screen. You might say I have writer's block, and it will eventually clear, but I know this condition as a specialized form of that malady. There is a symptom I didn't mention- I go to any lengths to avoid my dissertation director in the hallways of the English Department. I have a bad case of Dissertation Avoidance Complex or the dreaded DAC."

I found this online, strangely enough posted there from the AEQ which published my only scholarly article in 1998.

I can't seem to write, study, or do anything except avoid the task at hand, the first 3 chapters..

Maybe this will help: Dissertation Doctor